Word: sexualism
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...employee is promised a job, often in another country, and once they arrive, find that their passport and documents are confiscated, and that the terms of employment are drastically different. They are trapped in a situation in which they are not even paid, cannot leave, and suffer physical and sexual abuse...
...victims are both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens, and about half of the cases involve prostitution. Estimates from government documents suggest that 50,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. every year for forced labor. The organization ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) has calculated that 300,000 American children are “at risk” of being forced into the sex trade. Incidents of child sexual exploitation, including child pornography, child prostitution, online enticement of children, and child sex tourism have increased 750 percent in five years...
...same-sex marriages, could make its way to the Supreme Court. If by then another moderate-to-liberal Justice has been replaced by a conservative, the court could conceivably overturn the sodomy case and the 1996 decision that outlawed a Colorado constitutional provision banning anti-discrimination statutes based on sexual orientation. And although it refused to take up the issue earlier this year, the court may also one day consider state laws preventing gays and lesbians from adopting children. In the meantime, next term the court plans to rule on whether Congress can withhold money from universities that make...
...Number of female domestic workers, as young as 12, at risk of potentially fatal sexual and physical abuse in Indonesia, according to a new Human Rights Watch report...
...other hand, it is not easy to shrug off. For in writing the play on which the film is based, Mark Medoff shrewdly, perhaps courageously, added an unexpected element to the mix. He permitted love--the real, sexual thing--to develop between that too-good teacher (played with a bit too much self-regard by William Hurt) and one of the school's charges...